CS 738: Advanced Compiler Optimizations (2020-21 Ist Semester)

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The videos for the course are available through the Canvas page.

There will be short assignments to give you a chance to apply the lecture material. Assignments will have some written and some programming tasks.

The course will mainly cover topics from the following list (not necessarily in the same order). Not all topics listed below will be covered, and depending on class feedback, new topics may be added.

• Introduction, compiler architecture, intermediate representations
• Control flow analysis, control-flow graphs, basic blocks
• Dataflow analysis
• SSA form
• Classical optimizations (constant folding, CSE, PRE)
• Pointer and alias analysis
• Interprocedural analysis
• Advanced Topics:
  • Garbage Collection
  • Program Synthesis
  • Program Testing and Debugging
  • Types and Programming

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